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Christmas Traditions Around the World PowerPoint Quiz for big kids!
So, it’s coming up to Christmas time! It’s a great time of year, but your students can be a little over excited… You want to introduce some fun Christmas themed class bonding games, but you want them to actually learn something too!
Well you can save yourself weeks with this ready to go prep free quiz!
Each question will appear on screen with 4 options for your students to choose from. You can do this as a hands up approach just for fun as a whole class activity, or you could get students to write down answers independently or in groups using the printable option included.
The answer is revealed on the next slide (although you could easily move all the answers to the end if you prefer it that way!) and with each answer, there is an explanation to the tradition so students can learn some fun facts from different cultures around the world too.
Traditions from 25 different countries are included so students will get broad exposure to lots of cultures. Countries featured include:
UK
China
Brazil
Philippines
Lebanon
Poland
Japan
Estonia
Costa Rica
India
Ukraine
Finland
South Korea
Iceland
Russia
Italy
Mexico
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
Denmark
Norway
Austria
Colombia
Greece
South Africa
Enjoy this Christmas season with your students and have fun learning while you play!
If you are a form tutor or are required to write a reference for your students, then this resource will really help you out!
This should help make the process of writing UCAS / Job references for your students much easier for you, whilst giving your students the opportunity to take ownership of their reference. This is especially helpful if you are a new tutor and haven’t had the opportunity to learn much about your students yet, as they will tell you everything you need to know with this resource!
Oftentimes, students can be very modest with their achievements and abilities and so this resource will really help to tease out their best qualities enabling you to simply lift content from their notes into your own reference.
This is a 2 page resource which could be printed double sided. One side is for students to fill out and the other is a guide with some examples to help direct them and ensure they consider all their achievements and qualities.
I hope this saves you lots of time and makes the reference writing process much smoother and more efficient!
Black History Month: Research Activities for Teens
Are you looking for some fun independent research activities for your students to do when learning about Black History?
This resource is really easy to use in your classroom – there are 16 printable worksheets which have the name and picture of some of the heroes of Black History: some are well-known and others are unsung heroes.
Students can then undertake their own research (at home or in lessons) to find out more about these people, and then reflect on why they think they are so inspirational and have made such a positive impact on Black History. There is also a blank version at the end for students to research their own hero!
Resource includes:
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Mary Seacole
• George Washington Carver
• Booker T. Washington
• Rosa Parks
• Muhammad Ali
• Malcolm X
• William H. Hastie
• Maya Angelou
• Thurgood Marshall
• Nelson Mandela
• James Meredith
• Ruby Bridges
• Elijah McCoy
This is great way for students to do some background research on some of the heroes that have shaped Black History and can be completed at home or during a lesson - there are plenty to choose from!
These worksheets would also look great displayed on a wall display or stapled into a booklet for students to keep!
Character Education Morning Meeting / Tutor Time Printable Journal on RESILIENCE.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting printable journal pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to be resilient and never give up by repetition and deep discussion.
In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured printable journal with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking writing prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Resilience Digital Whiteboard pack to go with it if you want to encourage group discussion or go paperless instead.
Product includes:
• 21 pages of Resilience Morning Meeting Journal
• Mindful Coloring page front cover for the journal
• 60 thought provoking writing prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
• 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Resilience. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon).
So help build your students’ resilience in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
A great resource to use as an ice breaker; ideal for a new tutor group. This encourages students to get up and about communicating with others to extract information and find things in common, breaking the ice and begin bonding with one another!
Find more here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/getting-to-know-you-ice-breakers-11095014
End of the Year Jenga style hands-on reflection game.
​Here's a really unique and fun idea to reflect on the academic year as a whole group or small group, where you can really bond with your students and be assured that everyone will have a blast!
This end of year reflection activity uses the concept of the game Jenga where students build a tower and remove pieces stacking them on top whilst trying to not knock the tower over or to build the tallest tower! The set used in this activity is simply adorable isn't it, and each activity is colour coded to coincide with the set.
This end of year reflection game can be used in 4 different ways to suit your budget, needs, resources and preference so it's really versatile! I have also included both colour and mono versions of each set which you can print onto coloured paper instead to make it more ink friendly for you.
There is also a digital, interactive option as well where no printing is needed at all - you're fully covered with this pack!
What this resource includes:
• 54 end of the year reflection questions
• 3 different printable options
• colour and black and white options
• an interactive 60+ slide PowerPoint
• comprehensive teacher's notes
The benefits:
• no need to stick anything to your blocks
• 4 differentiated ways to play
• different printing options to save money if necessary
• a paperless option
• ideas for competitive ways to play as a class
• suitable for a wide range of age groups
• questions accessible to all students
• an engaging and fun way to bond and reflect as a class
So take some time at the end of the school year to reflect with your students on how far you've all come together, in an exciting, engaging and happy atmosphere - what a wonderful way to finish the year!
Blogging is very much a part of students’ lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage to engage them further in your lessons, by getting them to write information on any topic using these awesome and realistic looking blog templates!
In this pack you will get 2 blog planning iPad/tablets: one to plan designing their blog, and another to plan their blog post.
You will also get 3 blog templates on a computer monitor, one with headings, one with just guidelines and one completely blank for maximum creativity potential!
Your students will really enjoy planning and writing their own blog posts on any topic with these. These will work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use. Use them for cover lessons, homework or classwork! These would look fantastic on display boards too.
Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson! Get yours now!
This values unit on Resilience is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our teenage students have a growth mindset and can bounce back from adversity so that they can succeed and reach their goals!
Product includes:
• Resilience PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• Resilience Printables - graphic organisers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included!
• Discussion point cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about resilience and effective skills on how to bounce back from challenges. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organisers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on resilience: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students' resilience and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
These exit tickets are a great way for students to summarise what they have learned during your lesson in a fun and relatable way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson.
There are 6 types of tickets which come 2 on a page.
Each ticket comes with clear instructions on what students need to do all based on the lesson objective.
You can use these to just collect in as a snap shot to check understanding and progress, but they will also look fantastic in students’ workbooks and as keepsakes to demonstrate their learning over time! I hope you enjoy using them!
End of Year Activities for Teens: no preparation needed, just print and go! This resource is a great way for students to wrap up, reflect on life, dream of the future and remain entertained while us teachers are using all our energy just trying to claw our way to the finish line!
If you want some fun and quality activities to use with your students at tutor time that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative memory book style activities that will last weeks running up to the much anticipated end of the school year!
This resource will encourage students to reflect on their year at school in fun and engaging ways and get them look ahead to the future too. The activities also come with quality teenage appropriate graphics which your students will love!
Product includes:
• My Super Memories
• My Best Day
• The Blues
• Dear Future Me
• Top Things I’ve Learned
• What’s to Come
• My Dream Board
• What A Tune!
• What A Great Book!
• #ThrowbackThursday
• My Proudest Moments
• Autographs
• Acrostic Poetry
• End of School Plans
• My Legacy
• My Pearls of Wisdom
& 4 more pages!
These end of year activities can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all! Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability.
Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework if you like!
These are not only fun to do but they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older - these could even be used with the same group of students each year to see how they have developed over time!
Enjoy!
Are you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson? Here are 99 of the best riddles out there that you can use as starter activities!
I have done all the hard work for you and gathered the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 99 riddles have passed my strict screening process to ensure they provide the right challenge and humour to suit that tough teenage market!
Having these riddles all neatly packaged in this PowerPoint means no preparation or resources are required - simply pull up this document and have it ready on the board for your students when they enter the room - also great for tutor periods!
These create an immediate buzz and settles the class at rapid speed! You can have students jot down their responses on personal whiteboards, on paper, or even have them discussing answers in pairs!
Do you want to prepare your teenage students on the skills section of their C.V. in a fun and self-reflective way? Then this PowerPoint and matching worksheet resource is for you, and will leave your students saying “those skills though…!”. (To explain the title, I like to keep my resources current to the world students are growing up in, making the title of this resource very fitting with current teen lingo!)
Product includes:
• 7 slide PowerPoint presentation with guided activities, both individual and peer included.
• 5 attractive and self-reflective worksheets relating to the PowerPoint.
This resource is great for C.V. preparation and guides students through the process of:
• identifying the skills employers are looking for
• which skills they currently have
• evidence of where they are demonstrating the skills
• what they will need to improve upon in the future for their chosen career.
The worksheets work hand in hand with the PowerPoint and everything is straightforward to follow requiring no preparation from you!
Give your students the best chance amongst all the competition out there for jobs in the big wide world. This will be so valuable in helping to build their CV and identifying which skills they need to develop while they are still in school – the earlier the better after all!
Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull out this resource in your lesson! Watch their reaction when you hand this out to them! “That TEACHER though…!”
Performance Management: Teachers’ Standards Evidence Binder
With Performance Related Pay now in full swing for teachers, it is more important than ever to document the evidence to prove that you are meeting the standard requirements which enable you to earn a pay rise, or at least remain at the top of the scale.
Oftentimes during the appraisal meeting season in September, we are reflecting on our achievements from the previous academic year but it can be difficult to remember everything we have done if we rely only on our memory! It is also often confusing to know where we can find evidence to prove we have met the standards; this is why I created this resource.
Tired of being less than inspired by dull blankets of text and confusing layouts of these standards, I decided to design something a little more aesthetically pleasing and easier to navigate and organise evidence with. With this 20 page binder, you can clearly see each of the standards and you have a simple and efficient system of both making quick notes and recording hard evidence of how you are meeting the standards.
So get organised with your performance management and ensure you get the pay you deserve as a teacher!
Teacher Watercolour Quote Posters for your classroom, office, teacher's lounge or home. They's also make for excellent personalized gifts for teachers!
If you love being inspired and you love watercolours, you'll enjoy these watercolour quote posters that have been a huge hit on my Instagram over the past year @teachersresourceforce!
These posters contain 20 teacher specific quotes that will look beautiful displayed in your classroom, office, staff room, hallways, wall displays or even in your own home! You can print them onto any size your printer can manage - they look great as full size wall posters, small little postcards, greeting cards, book or binder covers etc. the list is endless!
I hope these teacher watercolour quote posters bring you inspiration, motivation and joy, however you decide to use them!
This values unit on Leadership is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are taught how to be good leaders so that they can learn to be assertive, forward thinking, and be positive role models to others.
Product includes:
• 17 slides of Leadership PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• 10 pages of Leadership Printables - graphic organizers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred.
• 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
• 6 Leadership Posters with a watercolour theme.
Your students will learn:
• how to define leadership
• how to analyse their own and others' leadership
• where they might need to demonstrate leadership
• signs of a good leader
• signs of a weak leader
• what can affect leadership
• self-awareness of their own leadership
• actionable steps to develop leadership skills
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about leadership and effective skills on how to be a strong leader. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they’re not a requirement, but they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find 6 posters and a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on leadership: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students' leadership skills and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Tutor Time Activities, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.
These Character Education doodle colouring pages on "Resilience" are a wonderfully relaxing resource for your students, and colouring and displaying these quotes will encourage them to keep going through the hard times.
This complements the Character Education: Resilience teaching unit for teens perfectly!
I’m a big advocate for colouring therapy for students and adults, and I already have quite an extensive collection of different quote colouring pages available! They are wonderfully relaxing and especially effective for growth mindset as all quotes are inspirational and positive!
Not only are these resilience colouring pages ideal for decorating the classroom, but you’ll be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students a few minutes to wind down and relax by colouring.
In this unique set, you will get 5 different quotes on resilience. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for them to add their own doodles too!
So take a few minutes during a tutor time, morning meeting, indoor break, or give to early finishers, and let your students wind down and colour while reflecting on positive quotes.
Help your students build resilience and be all you know they can be!
This values unit on self-respect is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students have a healthy level of self-respect and assertiveness to maintain high standards in their lives. Sadly, this characteristic is become more and more rare - we need to teach our students the right way, now while they are young!
Product includes:
• 18 slides of self-respect PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• 9 pages of self-respect Printables - graphic organizers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred.
• 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
Your students will learn:
• how to define self-respect
• how to analyse their own and others' self-respect
• where they might need to demonstrate self-respect
• signs of high self-respect
• signs of low self-respect
• what can affect self-respect
• self-awareness of their own self-respect
• actionable steps to build self-respect
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about self-respect and effective skills on how to be assertive and raise their standards. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on self-respect: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students' self-respect and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
This Character Education on values super bundle is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are building strong character and values in order to help them succeed in school and for the rest of their lives - talk about having an impact!?
This 20% off bundle includes all 10 character units:
• self-esteem
• resilience
• self-respect
• empathy
• courage
• honesty
• compassion
• respect
• tolerance
• leadership
Sadly, teaching teens about character and values is often put to the bottom of the pile, yet did you know that it is the foundation for all success? If you want your students to do well in your class, I believe you need to be teaching them positive ways to think and act, now while they are young! It will make them more confident and resilient and ensure they have the self-belief that they can succeed.
Product includes:
• 160+ slides of PowerPoints - all are fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver them. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• 90+ pages of Printables to go with each unit - graphic organisers go perfectly with the PowerPoints if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There are also fun bonus homeworks included for each unit! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred.
• Over 240 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills in class.
Your students will learn the following in each characteristic area:
• how to define the character trait
• how to analyse their own and others’ character
• where they might need to demonstrate said characteristic
• signs of positive character trait
• signs of negative character trait
• what can affect change in character
• self-awareness of their own character
• actionable steps to build character
*This set includes 10 characteristics in a super saver bundle: save 20%*
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, these resources have been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! Each unit includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about each of the 5 characteristics and effective skills on how to strengthen them. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organisers which are supplementary to the PowerPoints: they work as helpful tools for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards in each unit to spark conversation and thoughts on each characteristic: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students’ character / values and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Health Class, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.
This values unit on Compassion is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are taught how to be compassionate towards others and motivated to actually take action in order to help those in need.
Product includes:
• 16 slides of Compassion PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• 9 pages of Compassion Printables - graphic organizers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred.
• 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
Your students will learn:
• how to define compassion
• how to analyse their own and others' compassion
• where they might need to demonstrate compassion
• signs of compassion
• signs of lack of compassion
• what can affect compassion
• self-awareness of their own compassion
• actionable steps to develop compassion
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about compassion and effective skills on how to be compassionate towards others. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they’re not a requirement, but they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on compassion: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students' compassion and encourage them to do good to help others and be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Tutor Time Activities, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.
Teaching Character Education? Showing gratitude has been proven to increase long-term well-being, improve health, relationships, emotions and help us bounce back from stressful experiences.
With the significant increase in stress and anxiety among our young people, it is more important than ever that as teachers, we are catering to our students’ emotional needs in the classroom.
This Gratitude Journal is the ideal way to help our students focus on the good aspects of their life and to appreciate their blessings – every one of us has something to be thankful for and this journal will be sure to highlight it! The journal contains 52 prompts, one for each week of the year. Each prompt is unique and encourages reflection on a wide range of life experiences, allowing for much more creativity and diversity in thinking and responses.
It is not labelled by month or date so can be started at any time in the year – new starts don’t have to only begin on January 1st, and gratitude isn't just for Thanksgiving!
You can let students take them home to complete as a private activity, or it can be done in school maybe at the start of the week as a Monday Morning Meeting.
You will receive both a PRINTABLE and DIGITAL version to suit your needs! The digital one is ideal for opening up on Google Slides as it can be completed and looked at on any device, whenever and wherever!
P.S. It’s also great for teachers too: we can all take time to have an attitude of gratitude!